So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
LUCRETIUSNature allows Destruction nor collapse of aught, until Some outward force may shatter by a blow, Or inward craft, entering its hollow cells, Dissolve it down.
More Lucretius Quotes
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It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
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How many evils have flowed from religion.
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All things keep on in everlasting motion, Out of the infinite come the particles, Speeding above, below, in endless dance.
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Nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another’s death.
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Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
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Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
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Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
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You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Nothing comes from nothing.
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Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.
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Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.
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